Shore dwellers need protection from brush fires

A comment about brush fires on Staten Island: It's awful. How many more people need to lose their homes or be scared out of their minds?

We keep hearing about a Bluebelt/Greenbelt being on the way. I have been hearing this for many years now.

I am one of those people who has lived through the fire ending in our backyard. My granddaughter's toys were burned. My fence is still down from that frightening day on Easter Sunday two years ago. Thank God my house didn't burn.

We need help! We need our governor to stand up for us and make this a priority, before it's too late -- before more families lose everything.